THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL’A DELICIOUSLY SCARY TALE OF FRIENDSHIP AND COURAGE…’THE GUARDIAN’This is Chuck Wendig at the top of his game.’THOMAS OLDE HEUVELT, AUTHOR OFHEXANDDARKER DAYS__________’THIS PLACE HATES YOU…’Five high school friends, bonded by an oath to protect each other no matter what.On a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhereOne friend walks up but never comes back down.Now twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared, and the friends return to find the lost boy and what lies beyond the staircase in the woodsFROM THE MODERN HORROR SENSATION COMES A NEW BONE-CHILLING MASTERPIECE.__________AUTHORS LOVE THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS…’Asearing, propulsive, dread-filledexploration of the horrors of knowing and being known.’ KIERSTEN WHITE, NO. 1NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OFHIDE’Deliciously disorientingand deeply captivating’ ALAINA URQUHART, NO. 1NEW TORK TIMESBETSELLING AUTHOR OFTHE BUTCHER GAME’The Staircase in the Woodsis a true blueprint for terrorthat stands alongside the likes of such classic habitats as Charlotte Perkins Gilman’sThe Yellow Wallpaper, Michael McDowell’sThe Elementals, and Stephen King’sThe Shining.’ CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN’The Staircase in the Woodsis asmysterious, alluring, heartbreaking, ever-shifting, and unnervingly powerfulas the nature of friendship itself.’ NAT CASSIDY’The Staircase in the Woodswill become lodged in your mind, if you let it in.’ JENNY KIEFER’Highly original and deeply disturbing, this one will stick with you.’ GWENDOLYN KISTE’Chuck Wendig is one of my very favorite storytellers.’ERIN MORGENSTERN’Wendig’s wheelhouse is knowing exactly how to pluck heartstrings and prey on fears at the same time’SADIE HARTMAN’Move over King, Chuck Wendig is the new voice of modern American horror’ADAM CHRISTOPHER*Sunday Times bestseller, May 2025.